Spring 2017
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To the Beach
Robert Schaller: Film as / for Music as / for Film
Date: Apr 2, 2017 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianAn evening of handmade works by Robert Schaller featuring live cello by Pierre Derycz in person!
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#7 by Joost Rekveld
INTERNAL SYSTEMS: films by Brakhage-Kren-Lowder-Rekveld-Sonoda
Date: Apr 10, 2017 8:00PM
Location: Echo Park Film CenterFeaturing a rescheduling of #7 by Joost Rekveld! Along with classics by Stan Brakhage, Rose Lowder, Kurt Kren and something newer by Eriko Sonoda.
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INAATE/SE/ It Shines a Certain Way to a Certain Place/It FliesFalls/
INAATE/SE/ It Shines a Certain Way to a Certain Place/It FliesFalls/
Date: Apr 30, 2017 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianA kaleidoscopic experience blending documentary, narrative, and experimental forms, INAATE/SE/ transcends linear colonized history to explore how the prophecy resonates through the generations in their indigenous community within Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. INAATE/SE/ will be proceeded by Anishinabemowin Nagishkodaading by Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain and Jáaji Approx. by Sky Hopinka.
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Fuses, dir. Carolee Schneemann,(1967)
Short Films curated for I Love Dick
Date: May 5, 2017 7:30PM
Location: CinefamilyLos Angeles Filmforum co-presents this program that begins with a night of shorts films by Naomi Uman, Carolee Schneeman, Cauleen Smith & more – with curator and I Love Dick consulting producer Logan Kibens and filmmaker Naomi Uman in person.
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from Film Title Poem, by Jennifer West
Jennifer West: Film Title Poem and Other Wonders
Date: May 7, 2017 8:30PM
Location: REDCATCo-presented at and with REDCAT, Jennifer West presents her sensual, partly abstract, partly imagistic works that delve into how fiction weaves itself into our memories–and how our viewing experience has changed with the digital revolution.
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Arthur Jafa’s Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Arthur Jafa’s Dreams Are Colder Than Death
Date: May 11, 2017 7:00PM
Location: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCAArthur Jafa’s Dreams are Colder than Death (2014) is an experimental video essay that explores some of the most fundamental questions facing American society. Participant Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, will introduce and discuss the documentary.
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Mimosas
L.A. OLA: Mimosas
Date: May 21, 2017 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianWinner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Critics’ Week 2016, with director Oliver Laxe in person!
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Jamilah Sabur, Playing Possum
The Site of Memory: Enframed Histories as Ritual
Date: Jun 4, 2017 7:30PM
Location: Spielberg Theatre at the EgyptianThe Site of Memory: Enframed Histories as Ritual provides a look at Black women film and video artists from or working in Southern California. Filmmakers dana washington, Suné Woods and Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, with curators Jheanelle Brown and Darol Olu Kae in person!